Guale Village at Seven-Mile Bend

Across the Ogeechee River from this point was the Province of Guale's northernmost town, the Satuache village. Spanish records place Satuache about 10 miles northeast of Guale’s provincial capital at Mission Santa Catalina (St. Catherines Island). Indian artifacts at the Seven-Mile Bend attest to Guale activity in association with the Spanish mission of San Diego de Satuache. The Guale town and the Spanish mission there were abandoned ca. 1663. The name Ogeechee is Indian and means River of the Uchee, (“seeing far away”) for a village further north on the 245-mile long river. This site is in the National Register of Historic Places.